Height

[Anonymous]

Just anecdotal evidence here, but...

Our pediatrician told us at age 2 that my son would be between 6' and 6'2" based on his growth chart. Parents are 5'3" and 5'7". He's now in college and is...6'1". And probably still growing a little bit.

Don't know why it works, but pediatrician said it did and 18 years later, she was right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 5'7" and my husband is 5'8".

Our kids are all young adults now, and our daughters are both 5'4"-5'5".

Our son is 6'1". No man in either family that we can think of (other than my cousins who get their height from their dad who is not related to me) has ever been taller than 5'10. It's a mystery. No way of predicting.

But you are 5’7 which is pretty equivalent to 6’1 as a man. He got your height. Not really a mystery to me.

[Anonymous]

I'm also short and am with someone a head taller, but I've always liked really tall and short pairings. So I would say, you sound lucky, lol.
At the grandparents level we don't have a lot of "skinny" genes.
I have one child who looks like she will tend to the big-boned style - like Laila Ali, a martial arts girl's build, not a ballerina build.
The other onenia small and agile.

It's funny how different they are.

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'2" and DH is over 6'3".

One of my kids is average height and the other one is very tall (like 99th percentile).

[Anonymous]

Wife is 4'10" and I'm 5'10". One 18 yo son is 5'7" other 21 yo is 5'9.5"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am short (below 5') and DH is tall (above 6'). DD is tall for her age at age 2, and she looks like 4 year old. DS is average height for his age at 7, and he has been like that throughout years. Both kids are skinny.

What is the chance that DD will be on the taller side like DH, and DS will be on the shorter side like me.

Very very high. IMO, girls take after their dads' families and boys after their moms'.

My mom is on the taller side and her entire family was tall. My brother is 6'3. My dad and I are average height. My FIL is very tall and my SIL is 6 ft tall. My MIL is 5'3 and my H is 5'10. I went to college with a brother and a sister; the sister was one head taller than her brother. They had a tiny Asian mom and a tall Midwesterner dad.
Our boys are both 6'3 but one looks just like my brother and the other one like my FIL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am short (below 5') and DH is tall (above 6'). DD is tall for her age at age 2, and she looks like 4 year old. DS is average height for his age at 7, and he has been like that throughout years. Both kids are skinny.

What is the chance that DD will be on the taller side like DH, and DS will be on the shorter side like me.

https://www.calculator.net/height-calculator.html?ctype=standard&ptype=1&cage=14&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=6.5&cpound=132&mcheightfeet=5&mcheightinch=4&fcheightfeet=6&fcheightinch=3&cheightmeter=112&ckg=18&mcheightmeter=164&fcheightmeter=178&x=0&y=0

[Anonymous]

I think they only thing you can definitively, is that boys grow to be taller than their moms. The rest is chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they only thing you can definitively, is that boys grow to be taller than their moms. The rest is chance.

I am not even sure you can say that. If mom is taller than dad, boys can be shorter than mom. I can’t think of anyone I know where this is the case (as I can’t think of any daughter being taller than dad), but I am sure it happens.

My MIL is very tall and only 1 inch shorter than one of her sons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am short (below 5') and DH is tall (above 6'). DD is tall for her age at age 2, and she looks like 4 year old. DS is average height for his age at 7, and he has been like that throughout years. Both kids are skinny.

What is the chance that DD will be on the taller side like DH, and DS will be on the shorter side like me.

https://www.calculator.net/height-calculator.html?ctype=standard&ptype=1&cage=14&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=6.5&cpound=132&mcheightfeet=5&mcheightinch=4&fcheightfeet=6&fcheightinch=3&cheightmeter=112&ckg=18&mcheightmeter=164&fcheightmeter=178&x=0&y=0

I don’t understand how this link works. I put that my son at 2 is 3 ft and based on DH and I’d height, he will be 6 feet. Then I changed to try it out and said my 2 year old is 4 feet. His height is still predicted to be 6 feet.

Basically it makes predictions only based on parents’ heights. If I increase my height by 2 inches, my son shoots up to 6’2”.